Japan Fact-checks: Fabricated disinformation attributed to Japan
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
False: “A survey by LINE concludes Japan has 10 times more infected people than officially announced” spreading across China
Fact-checked by INFACT
False: A Taiwanese newspaper reports “73 Japanese police officers contracted COVID-19 after handling infected corpses”
Fact-checked by INFACT
False: Al Jazeera reports “deer on the street of Tokyo amid the lockdown”
Fact-checked by INFACT
Fabrication: Nobel laureate Dr. Honjo says “this virus is Chinese-made”
Fact-checked by INFACT and BOOM.
Inaccurate: The US embassy in Japan warns “a collapse of the Japanese health care system is close at hand”
Fact-checked by INFACT
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False: the Japanese state of emergency declaration “gives governors the power to implement mandatory lockdowns”
Fact-checked by INFACT
Fabrication: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe staged his visit to survivors of a typhoon”
Fact-checked by INFACT and MyGoPen
